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by philipov 5y ago
As I see it, the problem is essentially an antitrust issue, but our notion of antitrust hasn't evolved since the early 1900s to cover the realities of today's economy. Whether a company has complete market domination is a red herr
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by philipov 5y ago
Where we're going, we won't need interferometry to see.
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by philipov 5y ago
When I was 14 I played MUDs. The MUD I played only allowed one account per user. I made two accounts and got banned. It was that day I decided to learn C and make my own MUD that allowed more than one account per user.
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by philipov 5y ago
I like this definition, but I think it breaks down even if you're not trying to be clever. AWS is a tech company. Amazon is not a tech company, it's a retail store. But AWS isn't actually an independent company, it's jus
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by philipov 5y ago
The joke is made at the expense of people who are naively saying that you can't be forced to turn over something you don't have, as if that's a defense that will work. They can mandate that you collect the thing they want you
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by philipov 5y ago
https://xkcd.com/538/
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by philipov 5y ago
It's probably using some twisted justification like saying that abortions cause harm to society as a whole, and that gives any member of society standing.
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by philipov 5y ago
You're right, I can't make that argument for those.
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by philipov 5y ago
The difference is that political opinions are not a protected class, while race, gender is. What is the justification for having protected classes? You can pick your opinions, but you can't pick to be a different gender.
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by philipov 5y ago
Do you remember Fiendster? This reminds me of that.
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by philipov 5y ago
> Windows 11 Insider Preview makes it more difficult for users to default to Chrome Are they implying that it won't be more difficult to default to Firefox? I ditched Chrome already.
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by philipov 5y ago
Being an asshole should also undercut their sales expectations.
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by philipov 5y ago
Independent Judiciary means independent of the executive and legislative branches. It doesn't mean immunity to public rebuke. Plenty of judges have to renew their mandate by standing for election. The incentives associated with having
884.
by philipov 5y ago
Your recourse is to stop using FB.
885.
by philipov 5y ago
Stealing is a mundane crime. Poisoning the meat supply would be an example of an extraordinary crime.
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by philipov 5y ago
I think the problem is that infinity doesn't exist in real life. We don't have access to unbounded quantities, so any discussion of them is necessarily going to be more abstract than the notions we're used to dealing with. Th
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by philipov 5y ago
Thank you! Put that under the gif with all the output the gif shows and it's perfect.
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by philipov 5y ago
It is both too fast and too slow. It's too fast to read it, and it's too slow for a drive-by look. Just put the document on the page like a normal person.
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by philipov 5y ago
A drop in the ocean of failure.
890.
by philipov 5y ago
I really dislike the animated gif. Let me stare at what it says as long as I want/need to. Not allowing the user to move at their own pace is bad UX.
891.
by philipov 5y ago
Or, they achieved the objective, but they found their own solution instead of being forced to have it spelled out for them . I commonly encounter people who have these degrees but are unable to figure out how to accomplish an objective unl
892.
by philipov 5y ago
It's only misleading if you're stuck in a reductionist mindset where every piece only has one job and combines linearly together with other pieces.
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by philipov 5y ago
There are popups? I didn't see any. Must be my malware blocker in action.
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by philipov 5y ago
> isn't the black hole a region that is drifting away so "fast" that light isn't fast enough to reach "us" on the outside? I've seen some models of black holes that are similar to this. Specifically,
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by philipov 5y ago
Users of facebook are paying for something, they're just not paying for it with cash. They're paying for it with their personal data.
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by philipov 5y ago
That's a popular quip, but I think it's actually a form of thought-terminating cliche. If you want, they're clients in the sense that a government torturer's victim is their client.
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by philipov 5y ago
In a sense, he's right that Facebook needs someone to provide content for them. But Facebook has billions of someones to do that for them. They don't need any particular someone, and there will still be plenty of someones left ove
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by philipov 5y ago
The assumptions don't hold in reality, but the myth of them holds in the minds of people doing the hiring, and that is enough.
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by philipov 5y ago
The place where the sand/gold analogy breaks down is that the goalposts are constantly shifting due to competition. If I've hired the best person in the world, and they're the best out of 100,000 candidates, then if someone e
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by philipov 5y ago
Suppose that the skill of the elites you produce is a normal distribution. There are only jobs for the best 0.001% of people in the field, but to get enough candidates that reach that 0.001% bar, you have to produce the other 99.999%. You&#

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